Guild Wars 2

Ronin.7381:

RedStar.4218:

Ronin.7381:

I’d love to ask what the Forgotten learned but oh… Glint killed them after the ritual.

Oh wow, I thought I knew Glint’s story but that’s a part I’ve never heard before. Is that in the book ?

“I can hear the thoughts of creatures. I am an oracle. I heard their plots against my master, stopped them before they reached him, killed them in their tracks. But I also felt their agony, their loss….”

Is there something before that quote ? Because that doesn’t mean that Glint killed the forgotten who performed the ritual on her. Especially when you consider there’s a book written about that particular ritual.

Pandaman.4758:

At the risk of going on a slight tangent to this topic, but has the popularity of the Ancestral Outfit dropped off? I still see people in the witch’s outfit every now and then, but it seems like for the most part only the newest outfit gets worn and people tend to revert back to their mix-n-match looks once the glam wears off.

It happens with every new things. People buy it, wear it for a while then revert back to what they really like once the novelty has worn off.

Ronin.7381:

I’d love to ask what the Forgotten learned but oh… Glint killed them after the ritual.

Oh wow, I thought I knew Glint’s story but that’s a part I’ve never heard before. Is that in the book ?

It’s because it takes them less time to release one. They don’t have to make one different for each armor class and they don’t have to worry about clipping when mixing with other armor pieces.

(Even if clipping is so common in this game, even some full sets clip)

It’d be great if we could mix them with other pieces, but seeing how some town clothes got turned into tonics, I’m not even hoping anything.

Galphar.3901:

Now if we could only get them to respond in topics that we have made suggestions in to improve the game

And what do you want them to say ? “Cool suggestion” ?
In the end, it doesn’t matter if they find a suggestion “cool” if there’s absolutely no plans at all to include it in the game. And if they do plan to include it, they are just going to keep quiet because that’s how they work : they stay quiet until it’s nearly done and then over hype it when it’s almost there.

If you don’t understand something written in a blog post, if you have technical problems or file a bug report, they will more than likely answer.
If you have a suggestion or if you are voicing your opinion on anything, they aren’t going to bother posting a useless “we have people reading our own official forum”.

I seem to recall canons being down there, but it’s been such a long time.

SpeedFiend.4521:

Perhaps you need to look at Glint’s own account of how she was freed again. While the Forgotten ritual did play a part in it, but that wasn’t all.

I can hear the thoughts of creatures. I am an oracle. I heard their plots against my master, stopped them before they reached him, killed them in their tracks. But I also felt their agony, their loss. It grieved me. At first, for centuries, I defended my master. But I could hear his thoughts, too, and I knew that if he rose again, all good things would come to an end. ”

Oh I know Glint’s story. But once again, that ritual did play a part. And the ritual worked for Glint and it also worked for a risen chicken.

Now I’m not an expert on chicken, but I doubt it was able to sense the pain of our PC before we cleansed it.

Jaken.6801:

Like:
Here are the contoveries of this week:
- Mounts: We hear you calling from them, but they are not in our design planning at the moment
- WvW is left behind: We heard your concern, WvW is actively worked on, however it is really hard to work in this constant changing enviroment, so the only thing we can ask for is your patience. I can however say, that there some things in the work, which still need to be tested though…
- etc..

I think WvW already got that kind of answer recently. And it was completely useless. “We’ve been working on things” oh no kitten ! Who knew ?
…
Of course they are working on it. They have teams for pretty much every aspect of the game (do they have a dungeon team ? I can’t recall what happened after the lead designer left).
But what the players want to know, is what is going to change and how. A “we like your idea” is useless if it doesn’t come with “and we’ll revamp it a bit to include it in the game”.

And whatever they think about mounts, or anything else, they will never completely brush off something. Because by saying “no” they are driving potential customers away. By being silent, the only harm done is having a mount thread every week.

khani.4786:

I want to know:

Should I continue to report names that violate the GW2 Naming Policy (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-naming-policy/) since it seems from the most recent post on Facebook that at least some Anet folks don’t care about people who violate this policy. (e.g. Captain America, Sailor Moon, Princess Snow White, etc)

This is not in reference to people “cosplaying” or creating a certain look. This question is only in reference to the names they choose

This is the facebook post I am referencing: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152393507864209.1073741843.114036714208&type=1

The world of copyright names is kind of unknown to me, but I really doubt that they are finding those names to be troublesome.

But for other cases, such as having an offensive name, you can be sure that they are caring about those.

The Pale Tree also creates Fern hounds.

Glint wasn’t freed like that. The Forgotten had to undertake a special ritual.

If all you need to free a champion from an ED’s influence is love (or a stone tablet with words written on it), the game surely is taking a disney turn.

What do you guys really want ? “Communication” can mean anything.

You want Anet to comment on some threads but what do you really expect them to say.

Let’s take the weekly mount threads. Do you expect them to come in and say “we’re listening” ? Because that’d would mean that they are working on adding mounts and they surely won’t announce something like that through a forum post.

Or the megaserver thread. “We’re working on it” doesn’t mean anything until we get told what exactly they are planning.

This is their official forum. Of course they must have at least one person skimming through the threads and telling each team what’s happening. There’s no need for a pointless “we’re listening” post.

Both sides are to blame. Anet took great pleasures in over-hyping their game and the playerbase always loved to try and find the tiniest detail in the most mundane things.

Right now everything is completely pointless : Anet barely shares anything because they grew tired of people throwing the Manifesto video in their face every single day and getting a “we’re listening” is utterly useless because it doesn’t mean anything.

They’re listening ? Yeah but are they working on it ? If so is it a priority ? And what the hell does “priority” mean anyway ? Will we see anything in a month, a year, 3 years ? By the time they give up on GW2 and launch GW3 ?

Oh and it’s great to have the “what we are planning for the year” blog posts. But since they seem to have a tendency to not really stick to it, those are pointless too.

Before you get your hopes too high, I hope you understand that this is GW2 we are talking about.
If UW makes an appearance you can be sure if won’t have anything to do with GW1’s version. Everything will be changed and don’t hope for it to be an elite zone nor even a dungeon.
What made UW especially difficult is that you could wipe very easily, which isn’t the case in GW2 no matter how much you mess up.

Welcome to GW2’s light armor collection where you have a ton of choice yet surprisingly not a kittening pair of pants.

Guess you can use this http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pirate_Captain%27s_Outfit

So all you need is “good influence” to get rid of dragon corruption ? Well then, this is turning into a nice kid’s movie where the power of love trumps everything else. Even ancient magic that’s been killing everything for eons.

Manasa Devi.7958:

Sylvari also don’t look like the Pale Tree at all, so lack of resemblance to anything means nothing.

An apple hardly looks like the tree it fell from. And Sylvari aren’t even the Pale Tree’s fruit. They “hatch” from that fruit.

A lot of henchmen have tombs in Granite Citadel.

Livia is probably somewhere and she’s going to come up one day and Ogden is still “alive”.

I don’t know if W/N would be viable. But you can always have a necromancer hero take skills like Blood Bond, Dark Fury and Order of Pain/Vampire.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Blood_Magic

Or you could create an assassin. It doesn’t really feel similar to GW2’s thief (hell, nearly nothing feels similar GW2’s professions, except maybe elementalist).

To keep up with the spirit of last year : the exact same thing except that instead of a Queen Jennah, we’re getting a Pale Tree avatar.

If you want and can’t find anyone to play with, drop me a pm here with your character name. Since I’m on vacation, I’ll gladly come and play.

Offair.2563:

There is a timer of 15min, if you remain dead you will get kicked from game due to inactive. However its easy to reset that timer just by switching a piece of gear. Yes switching gears, when you are dead.

15 minutes is way too long. And like you said, it’s incredibly easy to reset it.
Anyone who had to babysit a body next to the gate can agree with that.

Plus, forcing automatic rez on players dead for more than a minute might change zerg fights a bit.

DrakePhoenix.1532:

Plus, look at all the devastation that Scarlet caused. Technically, it wasn’t really Scarlet who was the mastermind.

How corrupted exactly was she remains the question that probably won’t ever get answered. And why she retained some sort of personality while every other minions lose it won’t probably get looked into either.

But Scarlet wasn’t a regular sylvari. Well before she was corrupted she was gifted. Mordremoth didn’t give her any kind of special ability to help her.

They should just add a timer. And not a huge one. Something like 30 seconds to 1 minute before it automatically waypoints you back, regardless whether or not someone is trying to rez you.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

PLOT TWIST!
Everyone goes in agreeing, thinking the summit a waste of time for the most part and instead of bickering whether or not to assist in killing the Elder Dragon, bicker about how many forces they should send – each leader trying to one-up the previous.

Then Primordus himself shows and burns the Grove to the ground, and a new zone pops up: “Malyck’s Grove” – all new sylvari characters get a new level 1-30 storyline and a new home city (Malyck’s Grove), that is, until Mordremoth corrupts it in Episode 7, right before we deal the finishing blow to Usoku. What? Why’s Usoku involved? Easy, he siphoned power from the Deep Sea Dragon and took Zhaitan’s death to invade after 2 years of it, and when he did he used the DSD’s power to put out the fire of Primordus, turning him into an actual statue.

How that would be so much better.

I mean, if the story writing is going haywire, might as well go full out random !

Having played with all the classes except Dervish, and having “solo’ed” (with heroes and henchmen) every missions, Necromancer and Mesmer are easy. But the easiest hands down wans Paragon.

But GW1 combat is nothing like GW2. I still find it more interesting than GW2’s.

And while in GW2 a mistake only leads to taking a WP and starting again, in GW1 a mistake leads to a full wipe and try again from the start.

The summit won’t go according to plan. The different countries will fight over something stupid and that we probably never heard about then their are going to get interrupted by mordrem attacking.

What is bugging me with the theory that other Pale Trees existed in the past is that there’s no record anywhere of it.

You’d think something like that would have at least been recorded by the Dwarves and Forgotten. Or at least mentioned by Glint.

lordkrall.7241:

That analogue would work. IF the COUNTRIES were part of the Pact.
That is not the case. The Pact is made up by the ORDERS and as such they have no power in the different countries.
Which seems to be the whole point of the current summit. To gather the COUNTRIES under one banner and confront the Dragon.

And that’s where things start making even less sense. The main goal of the Orders is to deal with the ED and they have no problem recruiting people.
The countries however have a ton of stuff to deal with so they leave the ED to the Orders so they can take care of non-ED related trouble.
Why bother rallying the countries when the Pact already exists.

Lodius.5392:

I think ascended jewelcrafting should NEVER be a part of the game.

For some of us… like myself… saved laurels for months to get trinkets, and some rings…

While nothing is fair… I still believe this type of change only caters to new players. They don’t have to experience the time gated laurel savings that the rest of us had to do.

Yeah because experiencing time gating is completely nice and fine…

But you also have to experience it to craft ascended gear.

Jaken.6801:

Which really begs the question why no one ever found them… I mean we have Asura technology which is able to scan for everything imaginable (we can scan for candy corn if i am not mistaken)
How was it possible to miss something so supposedly “powerful” that is apearently everywhere.
Did no one try to figure out why waypoints only work at certain locations?
With them they had the means to narrow them down and then conduct experiments from that location.
To be honest, from a scientific angle this whole concept is breaking down really fast.

Though I think this is where the “suspension of disbelief” comes in i guess

Maybe it’s not that easy. Scarlet had to use the energy probes to find the hub.

Erukk.1408:

RedStar.4218:

Yeah she only says that line to Sylvari, yet every other race also saw her at the center of the Eternal Alchemy and she isn’t protecting them.

That entire scene wasn’t too good. But the “(gasp) no !” is still priceless.

This was kinda answered in the “not Sylvari” dialogue…

Pale Tree: What dangers have you been toying with? Such things were not meant to be seen. They will crack your mind.
Player: I didn’t understand much of the vision, but you were at the center.
Pale Tree: If this was the device that Ceara used, then it must have maintained some of her touch upon it. But, I do not know what it could mean. Only you can know that.

It could be taken a number of ways, but I’m guessing it might just boil down to, “We might have seen a part of the Eternal Alchemy, but more importantly, we saw Scarlet’s version of it.”

That doesn’t make things better >.> If you’re a Sylvari “you saw me because I protect you” and if you’re a human “You saw me because…I don’t know”.

But I agree with you, the best way to get some sense out of it is “we saw what Scarlet saw, nothing more”.

BrunoBRS.5178:

she doesn’t say that line to anyone but the sylvari. if she did, it flew right over me.

she stands between the sylvari and mordremoth. it’s kinda implied that she immunizes against all dragons period, but i think that might have been sloppy writing. i don’t know. that scene was in dire need of a rewrite.

Yeah she only says that line to Sylvari, yet every other race also saw her at the center of the Eternal Alchemy and she isn’t protecting them.

That entire scene wasn’t too good. But the “(gasp) no !” is still priceless.

Something about the Pale Tree’s dialogue seem weird. I don’t think you get that part if you’re a human :
“-I didn’t understand much of the vision but you were at the center.
-Well my child, the one thing you must not forget is that I stand between you and the greatest darkness you’ll ever face”.

So why did every other race also saw that her ? She isn’t protecting humans or Charr.

And what’s so poweful about Mordremoth’s corruption ? Don’t tell me they are actually writting him as the biggest and baddest ED…
The Pale Tree says she doesn’t shield the soundless and (maybe) the NC, yet Zhaitan can’t even corrupt them. And why is Mordremoth only attacking Sylvari is Zhaitan, who couldn’t even corrupt hem, could corrupt everything else ?
Sure Scarlet was a genius. But Aerin wasn’t anything special.

Things are starting more and more to be written in a completely convenient way where the reader (because “player” is a big word for what we’ve been doing in this episode) shouldn’t start even trying to poke holes in the plot.

I seem to recall getting something like that a few weeks ago.

lordkrall.7241:

RedStar.4218:

Each time a dragon woke up, it did something incredibly huge and terrible.

More than a few months after waking up, all Mordremoth has done is destroy a few forts and kill a few dozen of people. That’s not big.

Do not confuse in-game time with real-world time.

For all we know it has only been two weeks since the defeat of Scarlet.

Except that, wasn’t one of their excuse of changing the game calendar to fit with the real world calendar so they could established the time line more easily ? And we’ve already had examples of the 2 week span been mentioned in-game.

Plus, between Scarlet’s Death and now, we had the Zephyrite festival which didn’t last one day. Then they had to travel all the way to Dry Top and get shot down. Followed by us investigating and the meeting with the Pale Tree didn’t happen one or two day after us seeing the Eternal Alchemy.

I completely admit that time doesn’t pass as fast in game than in real life. But it’s been more than a few days since Mordremoth woke up. And unlike the other ED, its taking its sweet time to do something devastating.

Each time a dragon woke up, it did something incredibly huge and terrible.

More than a few months after waking up, all Mordremoth has done is destroy a few forts and kill a few dozen of people. That’s not big.

Probably the same as this :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Animals-and-monsters-with-random-guild-tags/first#post4248202

Nilkemia.8507:

Supposedly, he’ll also see Taimi can get Zojja to listen at least. (A nice touch is that since my character is an Asura, he also notes that the boss could convince Zojja too.)

It’s not because you’re an Asura. It’s because it’s assumed that you helped Zojja through out all the dungeons.

My character is a Sylvari, I got the same line.

I felt like totally useless. You just click, and click and click.
The Pale Tree asks for my opinion, only one possible answer. Taimi sends you a letter ? You tell Kasmeer about it.

Rox is going to try to convince Rytlock. Yet, if Taimi doesn’t succeed in convincing Zojja, I’m the one who is supposed to go convince her because we’re “friends”. If Zojja is my friend, so is Rytlock.

And what the hell is the point of a summit ? The orders and now the Pact are in charge of fighting the dragons. That’s their mission, and up to now, they have one success.

And while I don’t generally criticize the voice acting, I can’t recall the particular line of the warden when he expressed surprised, but it made me laugh.

Oculus.5703:

I’m not saying clipping issues don’t exist, or that mounts don’t present another challenge in that regard, but this isn’t the ‘90s anymore and mounts in video games aren’t exactly something new or a killer feature that developers give its own bullet point on the box

And yet with the amount of threads popping up daily on this forum, you’d think it should be regarded as a killer feature.

Anyway, let’s see how those who created threads upon threads asking for mounts by using “we need a speed boost !” excuse are going to come up with new ideas for why mounts are mandatory to GW2.

Thobek.1730:

I have no idea what the OP is used to but gw2 has a huge amount of skins that cover all sorts of tastes.

Players that don’t like trenchoats or wannabe coats on their male rangers don’t have their taste covered.

There’s a lot of choice, that’s true. Some of it looks nice. But a lot of it, looks terrible.
Of course, that’s only my opinion and I guess I have no choice but to wait.

I mean, after 2 years, maybe there’s finally going to be an update where a weapon or armor skin really appeals to me instead of thinking “meh, it’s better than the awful one I’m wearing”.

With the correct dyes, it’s easy to mix match different armor pieces with sylvari cultural pieces to have something that still fits a sylvari.

Genlog.4983:

i stil think the dragons we now get are stil a warm up for the big boss and i dunno who that is ??

becouse Zaitan was lieutenant elder Dragon maby Moremoth is maby also lieutenant ??
and if you no that rank its not rely high

so i think sooner ore later we much face something much bigger and much more terror what we now get

2 years and we still have only dealt with one. If there’s a bigger boss, we’ll probably end up tackling it before taking down every other dragons because I doubt that Anet won’t have given up GW2 to create GW3 by the time we kill 5 more dragons.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Vayne.8563:

Okay obviously you’re not understanding so I’ll try one more time. Guild Wars 1 players were told there would be an upgrade. It was going to be called Utopia. That was what we were told we would get. Anet scrapped Utopia, the upgrade we actually wanted, to make Guild Wars 2. HAD we gotten Utopia, we’d have new content and everything we worked for. Anet STOPPED upgrading the game we were playing to make this game. No expansions for five years. Five years. And none ever again.

Are you intentionally misrepresenting what happened to bad mouth Anet or do you seriously believe this fantasy actually happened? Utopia was a project name they used for a small time while they considered doing a GW 1.5 type upgrade before the decided on doing the EotN expasion. There was NEVER any press releases, announcements or promises made to anyone about it. All the few mentions of it happened between Nightfall and EotN. EotN was PLANNED to transition into GW2 from the start.

There is enough FUD on these forums already, I’m surprised you would add to it.

After Nightfall we were supposed to get another game. Because that was their promise : a stand alone campaign every 6 months. 6 months later we still had no news. After a while we got news of GW2 and EotN.

Basically, the story is : Utopia was supposed to be the campaign after Nightfall. However they had so much things they wanted to alter, that it was easier for them to start from scratch and create GW2.
But because they weren’t total kittens, instead of saying “well we’re done with this game. But we’re doing another one you can buy” right out of the blue, we got “well we’re done with this game. But we’re going to sell one last expansion with scavenged content from what was supposed to be the next stand alone campaign (aka Utopia)”.

And thus we got EotN, with content that was at first from Utopia, re-skins and copy/paste dungeons, and things that were specifically made to promote GW2. Like that magnificent “birth of the first Sylvari” they advertised.

Don’t worry. You’ll get it once they’re done with the new ways of getting a precursor.

Siege weapon blueprints.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Siege

Balsa.3951:

Interesting never saw anet never want implement mounts. Do u have a link please would be nice.

You know what we did saw ? Them saying new legendaries and precursor hunt was underway.
And yet, more than a year later…So don’t hope on something like this they never even barely hinted at and let all those threads die once and for all.

You want mounts ? Anet can’t even do planned stuff in time. Creating a new thread about mounts each and every day won’t make them think “We should all drop whatever we’re doing and focus on mounts ! Of course, with so many threads it’s the thing we should solely focus on so we can release it next week”.

You can give every argument in the world, and flood the entire forums with it. It won’t happen in the next couple of years. If it was underway in less than 2 years, we would have heard at least a subtle hint. But we didn’t. After more than 2 years of asking. Nothing. At all.

Aycee.9162:

If they do add new paths to AC I really hope they don’t remove the old ones.

I’d be kind of dumb if they do. Aside from Kholer and Grast, you don’t really encounter ghosts in explorable mode.

So I guess every skin, titles and mini pets should be buyable in the gem store too. I mean, I want the reward but I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to get it with cash if I don’t want to go through the hassle of getting it.

We have no idea what happened to him and nothing new has been said about Malyck or his tree.

Oh and a theory that’s going on around is that Caithe killed him and that’s her awful secret that Scarlet knew.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Zhaitan is beaten but not dead. Else we’d not have a single risen in orr in open world map.

Zones are stuck in time until Anet decides otherwise.